More feral kittens, damnit.

Remember when I rescued Fatbutt and her brothers, Coal and Gus, AKA the "Gutter Gang?"  

Fatbutt, I miss you already!Do you see how tiny!With Spoon for Size


Well, I tried for a while to catch their momma, but she continuously eluded my capture and I kept catching Possums and realized she either was too smart for the trap, or she had moved.

I got a phone call today from one of the landscapers saying she'd moved.  And she's had another litter of kittens. 

Fuck!

I'm going to call my vet and find out what mornings she does spay and neuter appointments, and start trapping again.  I am going to have to rehome another set of kittens---hopefully they are small like these guys, because Gus was too feral to be tamed and he is languishing in Rescue, which sucks.  Both for him and for the rescue.  I should have neutered him and released him.

Cross your fingers that the babies are tiny, people.  Because if they're big, they're going to have a crummy life (after I trap and neuter and release them) living in the gutters here where I work.  I guess it could be worse, but I just feel bad for feral cats.  It is a shitty life.

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Devlyn
That is the poopiness of poopy. There's a pretty large population of strays here, too. They're all over my apartment complex, and my neighbor feeds them. It seems that all of the people who have cats in my complex let them outside, but I'm too a-scared of Baby Kitty coming back with some dirty disease or something. Plus, cars and other predators.
styro
If your neighbor (who feeds the strays) hasn't already, it might be worth talking to her about a TNR (trap-neuter-release) program for the strays, just to prevent breeding and kittens and such. I guarantee there are plenty of groups in Portland that would offer free spay neuter services for feral colonies.
styro
I mean, it sucks to have to be the one to do it, because it is a lot of work, and a real thankless job. But... I dunno. I have this inborn need to SAVE THE KITTEHS.
GiGi
they are lucky to have you. and I am just glad that you live eleventy billion miles away or else I'd have a house full of feral rescue kitties!
Snowy
i knows. i would be overrun with kittehs and poor LT would be reaching for the ventilator!
emilym

I know, if I lived where you live I might have HAD TO HAVE Fatbutt. Man, I still think about that cute kitty!

You are a nice person and you will be spending eternity in KITTY CAT HEAVEN so prepare yourself now.

styro
I am rolling in catnip as we speak.

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